Roy Lichtenstein - Roy Lichtenstein

Art book, 1994, 394 pages, 314 illustrations, 31 x 31 cm, hardcover. By Diane Waldman, annotated translation from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | Roy Lichtenstein's pictures with the monumentally enlarged details from comic strips made him famous: Black outlines, primary colors and halftone dots are their basic formal characteristics. In the paintings of the American painter Roy Lichtenstein (born 1923), his almost plagiarized pictorial language serves to turn the simple statements into their opposite with the highest technical perfection. They are to be understood both as critical comments on American everyday life and as questioning of the traditional opposition between art and commerce. This makes Roy Lichtenstein, comparable to Andy Warhol, one of the first and most important artists of Pop Art, his paintings and sculptures represent a significant contribution to American art of our century. Together with Diane Waldman, the renowned scientific companion of this development, Roy Lichtenstein has compiled a monograph that comprehensively presents his work from 1950 to the present day.